The historical period documented under the heading “AD 321” actually covers the years AD 100–475. The documentation will reveal to all the work and ambitions of the little horn of Daniel, of which Paul had forewarned when he declared in his day, “. . . The mystery of iniquity doth already work.” (2 Thess. 2:7.) It will expose just what that “work” was that set apart this diverse horn or entity from all others—a work that necessitated the divine warnings for us in 2 Thess. 2 and Daniel 7:20, 24–25, among others. One will observe that the issues involved in this mutual prophecy did not come about until after the demise of the pagan Western Roman Empire, when the ten symbolic horns came onto the stage of action. That means that antichrist and all the related prophetic issues, including the 1260, 1290, and the 1335 day-year prophetic periods did not, and do not, come into prophetic focus until sometime after AD 476. Before that date, however, important precedents had been set forth in church canons—and in civil edicts, as well—that gave the little horn (the papacy) judicial authority in the pagan Roman Empire. Documents of those proceedings reveal beforehand the character and spirit of intolerance of the little horn. Her assumed and delegated authority set the mold and enabled her rise into power in the sixth century, according to the prophecies. We would be much in remiss if we neglected so great an era as this.

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